Well, so far I've only played a couple of missions as the Alien, but he's a deadly little beast!! With Alien you can walk on any surface which makes sneaking up on grunts kinda straightforward, but the inbuilt A.I has made sure that it's not "Easy" as the grunts rarely walk alone & their firepower is decent enough to mean a few hits will kill you. You must use Aliens greatest strengths to get through. Speed & Stealth. Stealth by cutting power to lights or in some cases taking out the lights themselves. Circle round your enimies, lure one away & strike quickly with deadly precission. When it comes off without you getting caught it is very satisfying

Can't really go into too much detail as I'm just starting out really. Only downside thus far is the camera can be rather confusing when you go from walking on the floor to walking on the walls to walking on the ceiling & back again

Predator is much easier to control & much more straightforward than Alien, but then it's something I half expected. Stealth again plays a large part with predator as he's able to become "invisible" to sneak up on his prey and can also use distraction techniques to lure grunts away from the group, making for a kill with less hassle. "Trophy Kills" seem to be the way forward with the big guy and with his love of Skulls combined with my love of Skulls I think we'll be great mates

Predator downsides so far: thus far there are only 2 visuals which he can utilise. a "normal" view or the "Inferred heat sensor" view. Little disappointed not to see ultra violet & the rest amongst the viewing options. Apart from that life with predator is pretty good at the minute.....

It's not really the angle that's the problem as you're playing in "First Person". It's more a thing of trying to figure out which way up you currently are as one minute you're on a wall & then quickly go to being on the ceiling, so there's a very quick change to the view. To be honest I blame my brain more than anything else, but I started getting used to it last night................. Just as the missions were finishing

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DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME (ALIENS VS PREDATOR) AT CURRENT RETAIL PRICE! WAIT UNTIL IT GETS CHEAPER OR UNTIL YOU CAN BUY IT SECOND HAND! EVEN BETTER, JUST BORROW IT FROM A FRIEND! DISAPPOINTED DOES NOT BEGIN TO DESCRIBE IT!!!!!

It was all going swimmingly, but the initial excitement & nostalgia wore off and I started to notice the flaws in the game. Here are just a few:

Targeting is pants Stupidly placed objects stop you from making a clear kill Predator can jump something like 50 feet in some instances but couldn't hop over a 5 foot wall Whilst invisible somehow grunts managed to see me & start shooting from what seems like miles away Storyline has more pooh than Pauls house Fighting is pretty repetitive Camera work is just not up to scratch Objectives could be clearer The missions are too short And the bastard thing had the cheek to crash on me last night!!!

It's not a terrible game, but there are much stronger shooters of this type around. Nice to have it in the collection, but far from impressed with the actual game itself. It's almost like they've taken three almost good games & tried to shove them into one package to make it a quite good game, but have only managed to make an almost good game with three different stories. Had I paid £15 for it I might've been happy, but I've wasted £39.99 of gift vouchers on this

I praised Sega for having a hand in Bayonetta (pretty good game that!) but I must take that praise away for them going anywhere near this poor imitation of a classic game.